More Tapes! Trump Shocked To Learn Cohen Recorded Number Of Their Calls

[DonViejo]

By Allegra Kirkland | July 20, 2018 2:00 pm

Lordy, there are (lots of) tapes.

CNN reported Friday that President Trump’s longtime attorney Michael Cohen secretly recorded multiple conversations between the two, including one about a payment made to a former Playboy model who says she slept with Trump.

According to CNN, the President had no idea the calls were being recorded. When he learned this week about the tapes, which are now in the possession of the FBI, he reportedly said, “I can’t believe Michael would do this to me.”

The New York Times broke the news earlier Friday that Cohen had recorded a fall 2016 call in which he and Trump discussed paying Karen McDougal to keep her quiet about her alleged 2006 affair with the president.

All of the recordings were seized in April when the FBI executed search warrants on Cohen’s premises as part of a criminal investigation into his finances. Trump’s attorney Rudy Giuliani confirmed the existence of the McDougal tape, but said the two-minute call showed no wrongdoing on Trump’s behalf and was actually “powerful exculpatory evidence.”

The McDougal tape appears to be the only Trump-Cohen recording “of substance,” according to a source of CNN’s Dana Bash.

But Bash noted on air that Cohen apparently recorded his calls not just with Trump but with “people around the president” and other “significant individuals.” CNN did not name any of those other individuals.

In addition to working as a longtime fixer for Trump and the Trump Organization, Cohen arranged a hush money deal for powerful GOP donor Elliott Broidy and did legal work for Fox News host Sean Hannity.

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https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/cnn-multiple-trump-cohen-tapes

[VMA131Marine]

1. Trump knows he is in deep doo-doo

This is the tell: 'When he learned this week about the tapes, which are now in the possession of the FBI, he reportedly said, “I can’t believe Michael would do this to me.” '

What's on those tapes can sink him!

[onecaliberal]

2. He better hope there aren't tapes... eat your words fucker!

[Arkansas Granny]

6. Is this what they refer to as "poetic justice"?

[ProudMNDemocrat]

3. Cohen knows that Trump denies everything.......

With a scumbag like Trump, having a recording safeguards against denial, which taking one by their word is not enough. Taped recordings of conversations are proof the conversation took place. Trump can deny it was not him only to a point.

[kimbutgar]

4. I just hope Cohen doesn't get the Putin treatment and end up poisoned!

[RockRaven]

5. No surprise Trump's hypocritical about this too -- everyone knows he loved taping convos himself

He was notorious for it.

[OnDoutside]

7. Haberman says only one tape, and when it is pointed out that Avenatti says there are more,

Link to tweet

Apparently only journalists can get tips from "sources".......

[D_Master81]

8. So what else does Cohen have on him?

The way Trump went off that day of the raid was a tell to me, and likely many others, that he knew they were going to get the goods. If he really was surprised about the tapes then there's probably something else there, possibly worse that is still to come.